by Miranda Sawyer (Author)
Miranda Sawyer drives from Croydon to Swindon, via Stevenage, Harrogate and Cadbury World in Birmingham, on a nice day out around suburban Britain. This is the Britain of motorways and heritage centres, of campaigning housewives and executive housing estates, of boy racers and Essex girls, of Cheshire wives and Scottish golfers. Put on your co-ordinating smart/casual wear (no trainers please) and join her for an evening at a prestigious hotel nightclub, a day in Britain's most average town, a trip round Romford's bourgeois drug addicts, a date with The Lighthouse Family, a few hours with Staffordshire's jet-set. Plus: a hen night, a car cruise, a swingers' special evening, and a lovely Sunday drive to see the new B&Q on the bypass. Forget the Britain that is green and pleasant, urban and dangerous, historic and scenic: this is the rest of it, the vast swathes of inbetweeny land, the multiplexed, motorwayed, mind your manners Great British Experience. And it may well be where you live.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 034911319X
ISBN 13: 9780349113197
Book Overview: * GBP10,000 colour ad campaign in the GUARDIAN and INDEPENDENT plus London Underground escalator poster campaign * Author PR to include media interviews, events and online activity * Review and feature coverage across the national press, women's and style magazines * POS display pack to include arrows to direct the consumer to PARK AND RIDE * Submitted for major trade promotions * Featured on www.littlebrown.co.uk